The Norfolk town road crew and a tree and line crew from Tennessee dispatched by CL&P were hard at work in Norfolk Tuesday morning trying to restore power.

The town's emergency operations center at town hall was up and running, however, powered by a generator, and a warming station had been established at Botelle Elementary School.

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First Selectman Susan Dyer said that the town crew members had come in at 4 a.m. to make preparations for the day. "There's not much they can do in the dark, but they were here early assessing the situation," she said.

She said that a number of roads had to be closed due to toppled trees and downed wires, most of them in the highest reaches of the mountainous town. The lights went out in the center of the community late in the afternoon Monday, she reported, and in the southern portion of town at about 8 p.m.

"Our first priority is to open the roads," she said. "Then we can begin power restoration."

Among the roads closed were Doolittle Drive, Shantry Road, Loon Meadow, Grantsville Road, Parker Hill and part of Winchester Road. Route 272 had been closed but was reopened early in the morning.

A handful of otherf Litchfield County towns had been in Connecticut Light & Power's black category for power outages Tuesday night--betweeen 91 and 100 percent of customers in the dark--and only tiny, rural Norfolk remained in that category Tuesday, among the county's 26 municipalities.

Salisbury and Roxbury were in the next worst category, brown, meaning that between 81 and 90 percent of customers were without power--and the number of folks lacking service also rose in those towns Tuesday.. In Salisbury, the 2,464 of 2,963 customers in the dark as of early morning Tuesday had climbed to 2,503 without service and in Roxbury, where at least one house was crushed by a falling tree, the 1,200 of 1,333 without power Tuesday morning had rise by one customer.

The town least affected by Sandy in terms of outages, as of Tuesday morning, was Warren, where just 85 out of 787 customers were without power.